The city to highway fuel economy on the new car I just bought is 25:32. Yesterday, I drove 123 miles in the city. How many MORE miles could I have driven on the highway?
SOMEONE ANSWER
x/123 = 32/25
x = 157.44
so now finish it off
To determine how many more miles you could have driven on the highway, we need to find the ratio of city to highway fuel economy.
The given fuel economy ratio is 25:32, which means the car can travel 25 miles in the city for every 32 miles on the highway.
Yesterday, you drove 123 miles in the city. To find out how many more miles you could have driven on the highway, we'll set up a proportion:
City Miles / Highway Miles = City Fuel Economy / Highway Fuel Economy
Plugging in the given values, we have:
123 miles / x miles = 25 / 32
To solve for x, we can cross multiply:
123 * 32 = 25 * x
Simplifying, we have:
3936 = 25x
Dividing both sides by 25, we get:
x = 3936 / 25 = 157.44
Therefore, you could have driven approximately 157.44 more miles on the highway.